Personality, elevated blood pressure, and essential hypertension /
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| Imprint: | Washington : Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1992. |
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| Description: | xv, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Series in health psychology and behavioral medicine |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1450558 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Personality Factors in Blood Pressure and Hypertension Research. 1. Assessment of the Experience, Expression, and Control of Anger in Hypertension Research / Ernest H. Johnson and Charles D. Spielberger. 2. The Interview Method for Assessing Anger: Development and Validation / Ernest H. Johnson and Anthony F. Greene. 3. Anxiety, Neuroticism, Depression, and Hypertension / D. G. Byrne. 4. Type A Behavior Pattern and Cardiovascular Reactivity: Is There a Relationship with Hypertension? / Ray H. Rosenman. 5. A Contextual Perspective on Anger with Relevance to Blood Pressure / Raymond W. Novaco
- II. Blood Pressure Reactivity to Mental and Emotional Stress. 6. Cardiovascular Reactivity to Everyday Events / Lawrence F. Van Egeren and Marc D. Gellman. 7. Does Cardiovascular Reactivity Have Pathogenic Significance in Hypertensive Patients? / Thomas G. Pickering and William Gerin. 8. The Stress Interview in Hypertension Research / Mark A. Slater, Amy B. Good and Joel E. Dimsdale. 9. A Contextual Model for Research of Race Differences in Autonomic Reactivity / Norman B. Anderson, Maya McNeilly and Hector F. Myers
- III. Pathophysiological Mechanisms Linking Personality and Blood Pressure. 10. Relationship Between the Sympathetic Tone and Cardiovascular Responsiveness in the Course of Hypertension / Stevo Julius. 11. Vascular Reactivity, Sympathetic Tone, and Stress / Brent M. Egan. 12. Insulin: A Determinant of Blood Pressure? / Jay S. Skyler, Richard P. Donahue, Jennifer B. Marks, Novelette E. Thompson and Neil Schneiderman. 13. Methodological Issues in Studies of Obesity, Psychosocial Factors, and Hypertension / Shiriki Kumanyika and Lucile L. Adams-Campbell. 14. In Search of an Optimal Behavioral Treatment for Hypertension: A Review and Focus on Transcendental Meditation / Robert H. Schneider, Charles N. Alexander and Robert Keith Wallace
- IV. Future Directions. 15. Personality, Elevated Blood Pressure, and Essential Hypertension: A Research Agenda / Ernest H. Johnson and W. Doyle Gentry.
